it's a girl! CHRIS NEW LIFE AS A DOG DAD

Introducing his beloved rescue pup, the comedian opens up about “fur family” life and reaching a creative pinnacle

- Sam Brooks

In an interview with Woman's Day last year, Chris Parker swore that he and his husband Micheal McCabe would never become fathers, but after a lot of “social pressure”, there's now a new member of their family - a gorgeous, goofy rescue named Margot.

The new “dog dads” started looking at Trade Me and the SPCA website two months ago for an appropriately sized pet to live in their small central Auckland apartment, eventually coming across their adorable new canine charge, whom the comedian describes as “half Papillon and half cat”.

Chris, 34, recalls, “She was perfect. Her profile picture was gorge. She was smiling with her eyes wide open and her tongue out! She was the cutest thing I'd ever seen.”

As Margot sits next to Chris, docile and quiet on the couch, occasionally jumping up to investigate something or other, the stand-up superstar continues, “She's three years old, which means she's in her mid-thirties in dog years. She's grown up, so we don't have to do the puppy thing.”